“The obligation of the government is to make a proactive contribution so that it is profitable, successful and consolidates human rights in the two years that we are evaluating,” said Justice and Institutional Transparency Minister Iván Lima.
He welcomed the recent signing of a twoyear agreement in that city with the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) mission to monitor compliance with the recommendations of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI).
This team examined the violence unleashed in the AndeanAmazon nation during the coup against thenPresident Evo Morales and after the establishment of the de facto government in 2019.
According to Lima, the goal of installing the MesegBolivia is to speed up the implementation of the GIEI recommendations published on August 17, 2021, after several months of full investigations and to ensure transparency.
The GIEI experts described the bloody events of 2019 as a massacre, they also denounced summary executions and serious human rights violations in Bolivia by order of the executive led by Jeanine Áñez (November 2019November 2020).
“It is a moment of consolidation of what we have called memory, truth and justice,” Lima said of the signing of the document that will regulate the followup.
He recalled that when President Luis Arce received the GIEI report in 2021, he made a commitment to the country to comply with all his recommendations and what is happening now is part of that responsibility.
Some of these tasks have already been fulfilled, such as giving an economic contribution to the families of those who died in the massacres, providing a trust, arranging a job, handing out study grants, meal vouchers and canceling medical expenses.
Likewise, the decentralized public agency Service for the Prevention of Torture (Sepret) has already been spun off from the judiciary.
The headline confirmed that other proposals such as building the House of Remembrance and developing a national debate against racism and discrimination were in the works.
Lima commented that it is a cry from the Bolivian people to know the historical truth of events, to establish responsibilities and apply the appropriate sanctions to events that have left sorrow and pain in families.
The minister stressed that all facilities and full respect for the work of MesegBolivia will be made available, as was the case with the GIEI.
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